Genealogy
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As it turns out, my great-grandfather was not the one who came from Wales as I'd always been told. There are several other generations between whichever one that was and him.

It's 4 more generations back than I had. Now I have to find the marriage record for them in Sussex County, DE or birth or death records on him, if they exist. At least, I have somewhere and somewhen and someone with which to start looking which is much more than I had before I spoke to my Mom earlier. We always knew the name had changed slightly somewhere along the way as an Americanization.

Now there's one interesting fact contained in the records my Mom gave me that might be a clue to, but is not proof of the "Dragon" bloodline I'm looking for. My grandfather had 1 brother and 3 sisters I didn't know about before reading the transcript of my uncle's interview with him shortly before he died (1982-83). He gave the married names of his sisters in the interview as being C. M. Coppage, E. Burris and E. D. Weir.

When I saw that, I about fell out of my chair. I never expected to find a Weir intermarried with my mother's bloodline let alone so close to my own generation. I'm just trying to connect our family line to that of the Trawscoed, Wales line who go back to Beli Mawr and beyond, a phenomenal task in itself.

According to Nicholas de Vere, whose father's surname was Weir (an alternate spelling for de Vere), the "Dragons" rarely married outside their own bloodline, though it did occasionally happen (and was lamented by them because it diluted "the powers"). Either the Weir who married E. was marrying his own kind or he was not. Knowing the marriage practices of the de Vere arranged marriages the odds are he was, but there is always the exception, and I have no way of knowing.

Yet.